The Netanyahu government claims it is voluntary. That the new “humanitarian city” in al-Mawasi will shelter 600,000 people at ...

TEL AVIV — The Israeli military said Wednesday it plans to direct a significant portion of the 1.4 million displaced Palestinians crowded into the Gaza Strip’s southernmost town of Rafah ...

TEL AVIV, Israel - Will Israel execute a major incursion into Rafah, on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, or will Hamas and Israel agree to a cease-fire instead?

Reporting by Becky Sullivan in Tel Aviv, Israel; Aya Batrawy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Anas Baba in Rafah, Gaza Strip; and Jane Arraf in Amman, Jordan.

TEL AVIV — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged Monday that a “tragic mistake” had been made after an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah set fire to a tent ...

TEL AVIV — Palestinian civilians sheltering in the city of Rafah will be allowed to flee to other areas of southern Gaza before an ... Rafah is also a last refuge to roughly 1.4 million ...

Israeli strikes killed 22 people in Gaza City, including 11 children and three women, and 19 others in Khan Younis. The ...

By SAM MEDNICK and SAMY MAGDY TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel announced Saturday it had completed construction of a new security corridor cutting off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of ...

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel announced Saturday it had completed construction of a new security corridor cutting off the southern city of Rafah from the rest of Gaza, and the military said it would ...

Netanyahu’s statement came just hours before Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to arrive in Tel Aviv to accelerate ceasefire talks. Mediators in the negotiations have expressed optimism that ...

TEL AVIV and LONDON -- Before war erupted between Israel and Hamas in October, the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip was home to around 250,000 people. Now, the population has swelled to an ...

Dozens of Palestinians were feared killed and wounded after Israeli strikes hit a camp for the displaced in northwestern Rafah, eyewitnesses and first responders said late Sunday, in a part of the ...